Video streaming website YouTube is one of the most popular internet sites on the planet and consequently more and more companies are using it as an integral part of their marketing strategies. When Hi-Spec Engineering director Darren Grainger needed a new turning......

Precision subcontractor G&H Precision Engineering has created an apprentice sharing arrangement with one of its prime customers. A second year apprentice machinist will spend between six and eight weeks at the customer’s premises to experience line assembly......

Within three months of hearing about the latest innovation from XYZ Machine Tools, Colin and David Musgrove, joint owners of True Precision Engineering, had not one but two ProtoTRAK Lean Production Machines (LPM) up and running in TPE’s Blaydon-on-Tyne premises.......

Back in 2006, Clitheroe Light Engineering invested in what was then a state of the art Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS). Now, that system has been expanded and the family-owned business is going from strength to strength as a result. ...

Two brothers are proving that new companies can attract customers by concentrating on the basics, even in times of economic turbulence. Ed Hill reports. Recessions bring uncertain times for subcontractors but they also offer up opportunities for those willing to......

In less than ten years, Chirton Engineering has invested more than £2 million in new machine tools. Not bad going for a subcontract business started on a shoestring by a former machinist and works manager made redundant when his employer sold his engineering......

The subcontracting sector is not only one of the most versatile and vital elements of the manufacturing community, it is also one of the most competitive. Successful contractors look to deliver products of the highest quality and, increasingly, must also focus on......

One of the leading F1 race car teams in the 2012 season will be pounding the race circuits of the world having components on board machined on a Citizen CNC sliding head turn/mill centre by a fledgling subcontract precision machinist that set-up just under three years......

As market forces intensify in many sectors, manufacturing companies worldwide are looking to bring new products to market more quickly than ever before. ...

Founded in 1994 by Mark Bevan, MJB Precision Engineering has recently expanded its machining capacity by investing in a 22mm capacity Index CNC multi-spindle automatic from Geo Kingsbury Machine Tools. Until the German-built MS22C six spindle auto arrived, the......